One more thing, if you're not going to use a regular expression to
split a string, you should just use:
$input_usernames = explode(",", $data['Mail']['receiver_username']);
Cheers,
Adam
On Dec 5, 3:38 pm, Adam Royle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would use a single query and some array functions. This is off the
> cuff (untested) but should work as far as I can tell. Might do it
> slightly differently if you need the id of the User as well to do
> further processing, but you should be able to figure out the rest
> yourself.
>
> $input_usernames = split(",", $data['Mail']['receiver_username']);
> $found_usernames = $this->User->findAll( array('User.username' =>
> $input_usernames), 'User.field' );
> $found_usernames = Set::extract($found_usernames,
> '{n}.User.username');
>
> $orphan_usernames = array_diff($input_usernames, $found_usernames);
> pr($orphan_usernames); // the list of usernames that were not found
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
> On Dec 5, 1:15 pm, butangphp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Basically, I am writing a mailing class
>
> > $comma = ",";
> > if (strchr($data['Mail']['receiver_username'], $comma))
> > {
> > //remove the commas and create and array of usernames
> > $email_list = split(",",
> > $data['Mail']['receiver_username']);
>
> > foreach ($email_list as $receivers)
> > {
> > $receivers_id =
> > $this->User->getUserIdByUsername($receivers);
> > $conditions = 'User.id = "'.$receivers_id.'"';
> > $receivers = $this->User->field('username',
> > $conditions);
>
> > if ($receivers == 'FALSE')
> > {
> > //if one of the usernames is false, remove it and
> > continue with the
> > rest
> > }
>
> > }
>
> > If theres a comma (and hence more than one name listed) I split the
> > string and create an array.
> > I need a function in order to weed out usernames that are not in the
> > database. Any suggestions??
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